Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breaks. Last week, in the old India Office in London, the logjam broke after ten days of hard-driving pressure, stepped up by the Czech crisis. The Big Three of the West (the U.S., Britain and France) began the conference with a sensible and long-delayed step-admission of the Little Three (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg). The Benelux countries depend so closely on German industry that they insisted on a settlement. France yielded along the logical lines of compromise. The agreement in principle looks toward a Ruhr that will be politically part of Germany, but an international control...
These days, there are two ways of describing a novel laid in India: as the best thing of its sort since Forster's Passage to India-or not as good as Forster. This one is not as good. But it is a cool and intelligent book in its own right. The Harper Prize Novel, it is the work of Yugoslavian-born Joseph Hitrec, 36, who went to India for a vacation in 1933, stayed 14 years...
...India was somewhere between chaos and nationhood (probably much nearer the former...
...months ago, cannon boomed hollowly in Kathmandu, capital of the small (54,000 sq. mi.), ancient kingdom of Nepal on India's northeastern frontier, to signal the opening of diplomatic and trade relations between that country and the U.S. (TIME, May 12). It was a great event. For centuries, the Nepalese had dealt diplomatically only with Britain, occasionally with the Chinese...
...same day, at 50 other spots throughout India, portions of Gandhi's ashes were immersed amid ceremonies watched by 50 million Indians. From the India League of America came a request for ashes to be enshrined in a proposed Gandhi memorial in Washington...